TL;DR:
Health, money, and communication – arguably the 3 most important aspects of human life, are completely broken in the modern world…
What if I told you there are glaring solutions to all 3 of these things…people just haven’t figured it out yet?
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Hello friends.
For those who’ve been plugging away at my podcast, you’ve probably noticed I like to bounce around between different subjects fairly often across the episodes. So, today, I figured I’d whip up a quick RECAP post, as a nice checkpoint summarizing a few of the main topics which I believe are the most important for people to have a general understanding of.
Bear in mind, I’m going to keep this post VERY general in scope. For deeper digging on any of the topics we’re about to explore, I’ll leave plenty of additional resources throughout, which you can use to launch yourself alllllll the way into the rabbit hole.
Alright, let’s get into it.
In my eyes, there are THREE primary overarching topics out there that strike a generationally-rare balance of the following 3 criteria:
a) Being critically important to all of humanity
b) Being horrifically misunderstood by practically all of humanity
c) Having a perfect solution right there in front of us, which BLOWS UP this misunderstanding, and elevates our species to the next level in that category
These 3 topics are:
1. HEALTH
2. MONEY
3. COMMUNICATION
Let’s walk through each of these one at a time, and break down why they’re so critical, how they’re so misunderstood, and how we can collectively EVOLVE across each of these categories in a way that benefits everyone.
#1: HEALTH
The Problem
For 99% of our existence on this planet, humans have lived long, healthy lives, and only really had to worry about either getting killed by either a wild animal, an enemy tribe that wanted our resources, or a rare, black swan plague that came through every once in a long while.
Yes, there has always been some form of DANGER present in our ancestral past…but we’ve never had to fight chronic health conditions at mass-scale like we do today. In modern times, we may not have to worry about a lion chomping our head off when we walk out the door, but the world is FILLED with sickness, disease, and general unwellness across the entire global population.
1 in 2 people alive today are expected to get diagnosed with cancer, Diabetes prevalence is skyrocketing, mental health markers are collapsing across the board, Dementia is now considered a normal part of aging…etc. etc., the list goes on.
Nailing down a single top culprit is difficult, as so many factors have changed in recent decades. Many of my podcast guests have argued that the reduction in sun exposure and increase in non-native blue light is public enemy #1, and I absolutely believe this is a major factor…but from the research I’ve done on the subject, my stance is that the majority of the blame lies on humanity’s drastic change in DIET.
To elaborate, after an extensive ancestral past of basing our diet on fatty red meat and other animal products—only using plants as an emergency backup food in the case of a failed hunt—the whole world is now following a completely different approach, the “balanced diet”, a very fluffily-worded marketing term that really just means: “A lot more plants, and a lot less meat.”
Toss in the additional junk like ultra-processed sludge, refined sugar, seed oils, AND the fact that the official government guidelines encourage people to start feeding all of this crap to KIDS from birth…and I think we’ve got a pretty darn good argument for what the real boogeyman is in terms of why the entire baseline of health has fallen off a cliff in the past century.
It’s not a pharmaceutical deficiency,
It’s not genetics deciding to just implode out of nowhere,
And above all, it’s most CERTAINLY not the red meat & animal products we’ve been eating for our entire existence, which so many around the world have recently been brainwashed by their governments & medical establishments into believing are somehow the CAUSE of poor health, rather than the solution.
The series of events that led to this mass-delusion is a rabbit hole in itself…
As humans today eat less red meat than ever before in history, the results of the “plant-based” experiment are speaking for themselves.
So, logically, I believe the key to digging our way out of this mess is, very simply, to throw allllllll of the modern dietary additions out the window, and just go back to what’s been proven to work for the entire history of our species!
The Solution
While I will never say that the process required to reverse the damage that’s been done to global health will be easy…I would argue that it’s relatively simple.
At scale, we destroy the plant-based government propaganda that’s correlated right alongside this mess, and trend humanity back to the tried-and-true ancestral human diet: copious amounts of fatty red meat & other animal products, with as close to zero carbohydrates as possible. (AKA the “carnivore diet” as it’s recently been coined.)
As I’ve discussed with my many podcast guests on the subject, the medical industrial complex, which currently runs the show of health & diet guidelines, is, shall we say … absolutely fucked.
Thus, this health reclamation will be a grassroots, bottom-up effort.
There’s no doubt this will be a massive war in the coming years/decades, and some of us may not get to ring the final victory bell in our lifetimes. But…I’m optimistic that with the tools we now have at our disposal (2 of which we’ll be covering later in this article 👀) we WILL turn this ship of rampant sickness around, and get back to being the strong, badass, apex predators we humans were designed to be.
Further Resources:
🥩 WhyCarnivore.com: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Carnivore Educational Resources
📺 Ben Wehrman Podcast – All CARNIVORE Episodes (Playlist)
📺 Dr. Anthony Chaffee: Plants Are Trying To Kill You Presentation
📺 Ken Berry Carnivore Playlist on YouTube
📚 The Carnivore Diet (Dr. Shawn Baker)
📚 The Big Fat Surprise (Nina Teicholz)
📚 Fiat Food (Matthew Lysiak)
#2: MONEY
Some may think this is a crazy one to include on this list, especially as a follow-up to to a topic as significant as health.
But I would argue that money is right up there in the same tier of importance, and I’ll explain why.
Money is the tool humans use to exercise the traits that make us so unique in the animal kingdom.
The ability to connect the goods & services we produce to a universal form of value has been a pivotal technology that’s allowed our species to flourish, cooperate better, build stronger relationships, construct civilizations, and so forth. Money is the lubrication that allows this machine to function.
It allows for people from all different walks of life, let’s say for example, a farmer, a construction worker, and a musician, to specialize in what they are individually good at, and be able to TRADE with the others. This way, every party involved can focus purely on the craft they are best at, without having to generalize their actions across every field, all of the time (which would yield sub-optimal outcomes).
Example: Using our farmer and construction worker characters from above – if the farmer had to build his own house, and the construction worker had to start a farm to grow his own food, both would end up with a worse final result in their non-specialized field, as that isn’t what they’re good at. By contrast, if the farmer just grew the food for both, and the construction worker built the houses for both, each of these economic actors would have a better final product.
But how are all of these interlocking trades of goods and services settled when spanned across an entire economy? If the construction worker just wants a dozen eggs, how does he pay for that? (Giving the farmer 1/100th of a house wouldn’t make sense).
This is where MONEY comes in – the perfect value-measurement tool that allows people across all disciplines to trade on a level playing field.
Before money, people had to trade these goods & services by means that didn’t work very efficiently (again, it’s hard for a farmer to pay the construction worker for his new house in cows & chickens, and vice versa). With money, these means of teamwork, cooperation, and individual specialization become seamless, and massively boost overall human flourishing across the entire economy.
I hope that makes a decent amount of sense, given the parameters of conciseness I’m trying work within on this article. For the full-course masterclass on why money is so crucial to human progress, I recommend ordering what I believe to be the single most important book on earth today: The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous. It explains all of this in extensive detail.
The Problem
With that crash-course out of the way, let’s bring things back to modern-day.
This fantastic tool of money, which for thousands of years INCREASED human flourishing due to its openness and neutrality through the process outlined above, has been captured, and turned into a weapon of top-down destruction by a very small cohort of bureaucrats at the peak of the political pecking order.
The exact process of how we transitioned from good money (gold) to bad money (fiat currency) would take us a bit off the rails. For more on that, check out this playlist on YouTube.
The gist of it is this:
For thousands of years, humans used GOLD for money, and it worked BEAUTIFULLY for facilitating trade, because it excelled in a particular set of criteria. In this post, we’re going to highlight what is arguably the most important of those traits: its SCARCITY.
I.E., gold is difficult to find and takes a lot of work to mine, so its overall SUPPLY rose very slowly over the millennia. Because of this, the value of the gold people held was not diluted by a growth in supply. (1,000 years ago, if you were given a gold coin as a child, it would be worth MORE at the end of your life than when you received it.)
Compare this to what we have now: monopoly funny-money that’s printed by the trillions by our government, which DETERIORATES everyone’s purchasing power over time, making it increasingly difficult for people to be able to purchase even the basic essentials like rent and groceries (despite living in the richest country in the history of the world!)
Because gold was scarce, it INCREASED people’s ability to work together, create beautiful things, and overall, usher in ABUNDANCE for thousands of years.
Unfortunately…the days of sound money, which held value through its anchoring to physics & mathematics, came to an end along with so many other nice things we once had, in the past century.
Long story short, the big daddy banks & government got so big and powerful in the 20th century that they were able to say, “You know what, we kinda want to be able to just print all the money we want for free, and throw all semblance of responsibility out the window…so now all you peasants are going to stop using gold as money, start using our pieces of paper instead, and if you don’t, we’ll put you in a cage.”
And so, FIAT CURRENCY was born, and a whole mess of downstream effects began, which continue to accelerate to this day.
The Solution
The world desperately needs to get back on a sound money standard, and as I hinted at earlier with my #1 book recommendation, I believe that sound money will be Bitcoin.
Here’s a podcast I recorded (originally a blog post) to explain precisely why/how Bitcoin will pick up right where gold left off, and bring humanity back to a sound money standard that rewards hard work, rather than climbing the political bribery ladder:
For the extended explanation of the ills of fiat and how Bitcoin fixes all of them, I highly encourage you to start my podcast from the very beginning, and churn your way through, as that has been a staple topic throughout the show.
For now, the most basic way I can wrap it all up is:
Fiat currency gives governments the unlimited power to steal wealth from their citizens silently through perpetual currency debasement, also called inflation.
Bitcoin eliminates this superpower from the entire geopolitical game, as it brings back the mathematical rigidity of gold, but on a technological plane, which not only makes it a perfect match for the digital future we’re heading towards, but gives it a brand new level of technological imperviousness that will prevent it from facing the same fate of government capture as gold.
Again…this is a DEEP rabbit hole that I cannot possibly do justice in such a short post, so go subscribe to my podcast, start at Episode 1, and get listening!
Further Resources:
⚡️ WhyBitcoinOnly.com: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Bitcoin Educational Resources
📺 Ben Wehrman Podcast – All BITCOIN Episodes (Playlist)
✍️ The Bullish Case for Bitcoin Article (Vijay Boyapati)
📚 The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
📚 The Price of Tomorrow (Jeff Booth)
📚 The Bitcoin Handbook (Anil Patel)
📚 Fiat Ruins Everything (Jimmy Song)
#3: COMMUNICATION
WHEW!
We having fun yet, guys??
We’ve got one more left, and trust me, it’s a fun one.
I shouldn’t have to bore you with an explanation on why communication is important, so let’s jump straight to…
The Problem
The modern convenience we’ve gained from having all these fancy apps and social networks has come at a cost.
In short, Big Tech has gotten so large, that every centralized social media network has become a massive honeypot, where the primary goal is no longer to help people interact, but to harvest as many people’s personal data as possible. (You’ve probably heard the phrase: “If it’s free, you are the product”).
In addition, the flow of communication itself within these social media networks has become completely warped, as the aforementioned honeypot has been engulfed by the influence of bad actors. With great size comes messy incentive structures, as all of these megacorporations (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc.), now get frequent knocks on the door from…
DRUMROLL..any guesses? 🥁🥁🥁
THE GOVERNMENT! 🥳🎉🙌
3-FOR-3 BABY!!
And about those bureaucratic suits who force schools to feed children seed oils in all their lunches, and print infinite money to perpetuate forever-wars all across the globe to keep the Military Industrial Complex fat and happy…it turns out they have a lot of narratives to spin, and agendas to push in order to keep all these arms of corruption alive!
Thankfully for them, as described in the last section, they have an infinite piggy bank of money to blow, so all they need to do is make a few phone calls to important people, grab a few seats in some board rooms, and badda bing badda boom, they’ve got a direct line to influencing what content hundreds of millions of people see in their social media feeds, and when they see it.
Sounds pretty dark…
…But could there be a solution?
The Solution
Enter NOSTR.
In the same way that Bitcoin is decentralizing money, Nostr is decentralizing communication.
And it’s worth noting that, the way it’s designed is also VERY similar to Bitcoin (which is not surprising as the bulk of its early developers are Bitcoiners).
In short, rather than the network running on a single centralized megaserver as the giants like Twitter and Facebook do, Nostr is spread out across thousands of individually-run servers called “relays”.
What does this mean for communication at large?
Well, I don’t know about you all, but for YEARS I’ve had to hold back on many of the things I really want to talk about on places like YouTube or Instagram, since those Big Tech overlords and their congressional back-scratchers could rug-pull my account and wipe all my hard work from existence, at any time.
This cannot happen on Nostr.
With the decentralization of the relays that run the network comes the bomb-drop realization: there are NO overlords here. No CEO, no shareholders to please, no “ministry of truth” that can arbitrarily drop the hammer on your account…NONE of these shadowy forces that’ve plagued centralized social media platforms in recent years.
On Nostr, you can say whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want, and nobody can stop you. (Of course, users can still BLOCK anyone they want, and choose which relays they see content from; the point is that USERS now have the power to decide what content they see, NOT some invisible ruler as is the case on legacy platforms.)
As you can imagine, even in the very early days of the protocol, this has had a profound effect on how communication functions in the digital realm.
Suddenly, the way people speak is noticeably more FREE, as users no longer have to worry about getting banned for what they say. Of course, people are still incentivized to not post vulgar nonsense, or else they’ll be mass-blocked by individuals, or even entire relays.
But remember: there are tons of relays running at all times, so they too are incentivized to block content that’s actually bad from their servers. If they overstep their power—say block a certain political side more than the other—those who are connected to that relay can pack up and move to a more different one!
It’s a beautiful system, which again, just like Bitcoin, brings all the different pieces together in a way that empowers the individual, and incentivizes the infrastructural players to remain in line with the ethos of free speech.
This extremely simple yet profound concept of spreading out the content servers gives Nostr a level of censorship resistance that we’ve never seen in the social media space before, and the deeper you research it, the clearer it becomes that there is zero competition, as the network effect has already EXPLODED thanks to a dedicated base of early adopters (mostly bitcoiners and other hardcore free speech/libertarian types) who know a powerful self-sovereignty tool when they see one.
As of this writing, the Nostr protocol is still brand-spanking new (it was only launched in November 2020), but just like the other topics covered in this blog post, there are SO MANY bullish factors all converging at the same time (clear problem + solution + rock-solid early adoption base), that it’s impossible not to get excited about what the future of this technology holds.
Further Resources:
✍️ Nostr: The Ultimate Beginner’s Resource Collection
✍️ The Power of Nostr: Decentralized Social Media and More (Lyn Alden)
📺 Ben Wehrman Podcast – All NOSTR Episodes (Playlist)
📺 How Nostr Works And The Mind-Blowing Implications For Freedom & Prosperity (Pablo Fernandez, John Vallis)
📺 Nostr: Decentralized Social Media (William Casarin, Preston Pysh)
Summary of the Madness Covered So Far
#1: Carnivore – replaces the modern junk diet with a nutrient-dense, mind-and-body-healing upgrade, which, given enough time to proliferate, will catalyze a mass-improvement in the general population’s physical/mental wellbeing
#2: Bitcoin – neutralizes the government’s infinite money-printer, which will bring a halt to the runaway inflation that’s deteriorated the standard-of-living across the globe, and re-empower the individual to be able to SAVE MONEY again, so the masses can live a lower-stress life, build a family, and plan for the future without being tethered to the fiat currency hamster wheel for the rest of their days
#3 Nostr – makes free speech permissionless and unstoppable, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the first true free market of P2P communication/value-transaction between sovereign individuals
Will bringing these 3 solutions to mass adoption be easy? Absolutely not. We are in the early innings of an information war against the most powerful forces on earth, and anyone who says these changes will happen quickly or smoothly is kidding themselves.
But I DO believe, with all of my heart, that by utilizing these powerful tools, we WILL win in the long run.
And we MUST win, for the sake of leaving a better world for our children, our grandchildren, and beyond.
Conclusion / Bringing It All Together: Carnivore + Bitcoin + Nostr
I hope that by now, I’ve gotten some creative juices flowing in that there noggin, regarding the immense potential of all 3 of these disruptive forces that could not be arising at a more pivotal moment in human history.
But what if I told you…all 3 of these disruptors make the PERFECT mutually-beneficial team when combined together?
I’ve already given you a glimpse of how Nostr and Bitcoin overlap in structure and early-adoption base, but this is just the teeny tiny tip of the iceberg.
When you combine unstoppable communication with unstoppable monetary transactions, then pile on top a health change that will upgrade the brainpower of everyone on earth?
It’s mind-boggling to imagine the possibilities of how many problems will be solved by this, let’s call it, “Trifecta of Total Awesomeness”.
As I clickity-clack on this keyboard just 15 years after the Bitcoin genesis block, 7 years after the infamous Shawn Baker carnivore podcast on Joe Rogan, and a measly 4 years since the inception of Nostr…there is simply no way to comprehend what the future may hold. We truly are in the first inning with all of this.
But of course, you know that won’t stop me from trying!
To take this one home, I shall leave you with a couple podcasts in which I bring our 3 disrupting forces, Carnivore, Bitcoin, AND Nostr, all together in a single wide-ranging conversation.
Enjoy the wild world of imaginationland, my friends! 👇
And FOR REAL lastly this time…I also want you to bookmark the following 3 pages, which contain a treasure trove of educational resources on all 3 of the power-trio of disruptors we’ve discussed today, so you can become part of this journey, and begin brainstorming your own ideas for how the future may unfold, as well as the part YOU will play in it!
Alright, folks! That should leave y’all plenty to chew on for the foreseeable future.
I hope that by now, you’re as excited as I am for what the future holds…there certainly are some incredible catalysts joining the global game board right now that will make the coming years/decades VERY interesting!
As always, I appreciate you for stopping by, and if you gained some value out of this post, I would very much appreciate it if you scrolled down to the Bitcoin-tipping buttons below, and sent me however many sats you felt this intellectual adventure was worth.
I’ll see you next time,
-B
